[Pride and Prejudice] Crossing into Elizabeth

At two or three o'clock in the afternoon, Jane and Lydia finally came back.

They went out after breakfast and didn't come back until this hour. Sure enough, they bought a lot of things. Pemberley's servants helped them bring up their shopping, and filled two large paper bags.

Lydia was very excited, chattering about what things she had bought, and what things she wanted to buy, but because she bought too much, she reluctantly didn't buy them in the end.

". . . there was a very pretty roll of lace! I really liked it, and it would be lovely to have a dress with that lace, but Jane said the lace was so poor it wouldn't stand up to washing at all, so I didn't buy it, I I didn't want my dress to be ruined by some unwashed lace, but I regretted it when I got back, and it occurred to me that I could use that lace for my hat! Lizzie, you don't know how much I wanted to go back and buy that Lace, but Jane won't let it go, and insists that it will be dark if we go back again! But you see, it's still light when we're all back!"

Lydia's voice was already loud, and when she got excited again, the voice was so loud that Elizabeth's mind was buzzing, and Elizabeth didn't listen to a single word she said.

As soon as Lydia got excited, she talked endlessly. Elizabeth was tortured by her until her head hurt, so she thought about sending Lydia away.

"But I still bought a roll of lace," Lydia looked for from the bag, but there were too many messy things in the bag, she searched for a long time, and finally found it out.

"No," she waved the lace in front of her eyes, "this is it, although it's not as pretty as that one, but it's okay."

Elizabeth thought this was an opportunity, so she hurriedly said: "I think this lace is very beautiful, especially with your silver skirt and the hat you brought, how about you match them now? You can wear it home, and everyone will know it when you get home.”

Lydia thought it was a good idea. She wanted to give her family a refreshing feeling, so she hurried back to her room to decorate her skirt and hat. Elizabeth wished she would go out of her room immediately, but the mess she bought was still there Here, it was mixed with the gifts that Jane bought for others. Lydia dug out all the things bought for her, and packed them into a big bag. After everything was packed, she took the bag and went out. Well, Elizabeth really didn't know what she bought. When she carried the things away, the bags were still clinking.

At last Lydia went out, and restored the peace to them.

Elizabeth leaned on the back of the sofa and let out a long sigh of relief.

Jane sat down beside her, as if she was relieved, "I'm exhausted from going out today, Lydia also wants to go here and there, if I didn't stop her, it would be dark We're not coming back yet."

"...Then do you want to go back to your room and sleep?"

Jane is a person who doesn't complain easily. She can say that, it seems that she is really exhausted.

But Elizabeth felt that she was not much better than Jane. Although she didn't go anywhere, she also felt tired and didn't want to move at all, and she didn't even want to talk.

Jane didn't notice the strangeness of her sister, she was really tired today.

But she didn't want to go back to the room to rest. If he went back to the room like this and was seen by Bingley, he would definitely ask her why she didn't come back soon when she felt tired, and then she would drag Lydia out again. She didn't want Bingley I can't be more dissatisfied with Lydia.

It's just that these are not easy to tell Elizabeth.

"...No need," Jane just said, "I'm not that tired, I'll just sit here with you for a while."

Elizabeth and Jane sat on the sofa together for a while, and neither of them spoke, but it was quite strange. Elizabeth didn't want Jane to see anything, so she looked in the things they bought, and there were Elizabeth opened some boxes one by one, including a brooch inlaid with diamonds, a bottle of gold-colored perfume that is very popular among women nowadays, several silk handkerchiefs, and some wrapping paper and ribbons.

Elizabeth felt that these gifts were quite suitable. The brooch was for Mrs. Reynolds, the perfume was for Miss Darcy, and the handkerchief was for Sophia and Missy.

Elizabeth wrapped the presents one by one with wrapping paper and ribbons. Her movements were slow. When she finished, Jane also felt that she had recovered a little.

It happened that Bentley came over to find Jane.

"I'll calculate the time," Bingley came in and said with a smile, "I think you can finish talking about this trip in an hour. How much can you say when you come back from the purchase.”

Caroline's letter during dinner in the morning made him very embarrassed, and he couldn't stay with Elizabeth and the others for a while. It had disappeared a long time ago, as long as he didn't see Caroline or the Hesters, as long as no one mentioned them, he basically wouldn't feel embarrassed.

Jane was sure that he would not embarrass him, and he had the same confidence in his wife and sister Elizabeth, so Bingley came very easily.

As soon as they entered the door, they made fun of the two sisters.

Elizabeth responded with a smile: "All the things we said just now are not as much as what you said when you came in. Do you believe it?"

"I won't be fooled by this, and I didn't say as much as I came in! I only said a few words? Unless you are not talking at all! Ladies come back from shopping and don't say a word! There is only one possibility, You're getting mad at each other, but you don't look like it."

When Jane heard this, she was afraid that Elizabeth would tell Bingley what she was tired just now, so she quickly stopped them.

"Let's be serious," she said, "we've also bought presents, and we can go home as soon as they're delivered. Mom has written to remind us several times, telling us to go back quickly."

Mentioning this Elizabeth is also a bit distressed. Mrs. Bennet has sent several letters in a row, urging them to go home as soon as possible.

Elizabeth thought of the date mentioned in Mrs. Bennet's letter. If she remembered correctly, Mr. Collins should have visited their house the day before yesterday.

Thinking of the urgent tone in Mrs. Bennet's letter, Elizabeth felt helpless. The more anxious she was to let them go back, the less Elizabeth wanted to go back. There must be nothing good waiting for her.

Elizabeth was having a headache when she heard Jane say to Mr. Bingley: "...you can tell Mr. Darcy about our going home when we are having dinner later."

Elizabeth's heart jumped, and then she remembered, yes, she hasn't told Jane that Mr. Darcy has left.

Mr. Bingley must have thought that she had already told Jane. He raised his eyebrows in surprise when he heard this, "Why don't you know?"

Jane asked inexplicably: "...know what?"

"Darcy left Pemberley in the morning," Mr. Bingley said quickly to Jane, giving her a strange look. Rosings is gone."

Jane was very surprised when she heard this. She took a quick look at Elizabeth. She was too tired to notice just now. Now that she heard the news, she quickly felt that Elizabeth was strange just now. She was too quiet just now. In a word Don't say anything, it seems very spiritless.

So thinking, she asked Bingley: "Miss Anne called him away suddenly! What does that mean? Has anything happened to Rosings?"

Bingley shook his head and said: "Darcy walked away in a hurry, and I happened to meet him in the hall on the first floor, and he only said a few words to me, and he only told me that Rosings was in a hurry, and he had to go immediately." Hurry over. Darcy told me this, and it was a coincidence, or Darcy would have gone away without showing his face."

Speaking of this, Bingley involuntarily glanced at Elizabeth.

That's all he really knew, but Elizabeth probably knew more. After Darcy left in a hurry, he wanted to ask Mrs. Reynolds to find out more clearly, but Reynolds The wife didn't know the details, but she told him that Darcy came over to say goodbye to Elizabeth before she left. Mrs. Reynolds said that he could ask Elizabeth, and Darcy might have told Elizabeth what happened.

After listening to her husband's story, Jane looked at Elizabeth very worriedly.

She was still confused about Elizabeth's mind. Elizabeth seldom mentioned Mr. Darcy in front of her, but looking at her just now, it was obvious that she was not indifferent to Mr. Darcy.

This should have been a great thing. Mr. Darcy's character and status are impeccable. When Jane thought that Mr. Darcy might become her brother-in-law, she couldn't be more satisfied.

But seeing that my sister was also attracted to Mr. Darcy, why was Mr. Darcy suddenly called away by his cousin?

Jane, of course, had heard of Mr. Darcy and his cousin, and was therefore all the more apprehensive.

Elizabeth couldn't bear Jane's gaze, so she laughed and said, "...I thought I heard people here talking about it when you came back, who knows that you don't know about it yet."

But when she said this, she thought of something else. She was thinking about what Mr. Bingley said just now. Why did he just say a few words when he met him? You value her a lot, so you came here to say goodbye to her?

Thinking of this, Elizabeth slowly became a little happier.

But Mr. Bingley suddenly asked her: "Do you know why Darcy was suddenly called away by Miss Anne?"

Elizabeth thought for a while, and she didn't know much more than Mr. Bingley. Mr. Darcy only told her one more thing. He said that Mrs. Catherine was ill because of something urgent about Rosings. She asked Mr. Darcy was willing to say it, and Elizabeth well remembered Mr. Darcy's hesitation in saying it.

It was evident that Mr. Darcy did not want her to know that.

Elizabeth suddenly felt that this matter had been made quite mysterious. Just now, she only felt that Mr. Darcy had something that he didn't want to tell her, and it was related to Miss Anne. Now it seemed that Mr. Darcy didn't just want to hide it from her alone. , he didn't tell anyone at all.

Not even Mrs. Reynolds knew.

After thinking about it, Elizabeth was a little uncertain whether to tell Mr. Bingley and others about Mrs. Catherine's sudden illness.

She felt that it was nothing to say about it, but she was on the tip of her tongue, and suddenly remembered Mr. Darcy's momentary hesitation.